By Michael Johansen (nee Morgan) The old Metters and Parramatta wood stoves were hungry beasts. They gobbled up wood at an alarming rate. There were a couple of huge ‘Gimlet’ gums in Brown Hill road but they were unavailable for firewood so we had to go collect our own out to the east of town. […]
Mollie’s Box – A family story
by Pam Caddy In 1999 a television program ‘Adopt A Soldier’ promoting the Perth Battye Library, featured a copy of a photograph of Pam Caddy’s father and four of his brothers all serving in WW1. This was the first time that Pam had seen the photo and she found out that it was from a […]
Memories of Ora Banda – a verse
My old home town is deserted now The prospecting scene has been altered But the memory lingers deep down somehow Of brave men who never faltered In their search for gold, in the auriferous hills. Despite the heat and cold and winter ills I can see them now as they blazed the track Accepting the […]
A Picnic in Bush – Sirr Family
I was recently sent this wonderful photograph from OFH reader, Peter Sirr, who has given me permission to share this great image from his family album. Peter tells me:- This is a Sirr family photo circa 1914 (or before). They are at a picnic on a woodline out of Gwalia/Leonora. The older white haired man […]
The Murder of the Duke of Sutherland:
John Sutherland, better known at the ‘Duke of Sutherland’,died on the 26th February 1895 in his own camp at Nannine, in the Meekatharra district. His age was not know. He was a miner who was shot dead by and old friend, Henry August Muller, who then killed himself. Both men were old identities at Nannine. […]
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